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Nov 11, 2010

yessssss!

You guys, I'm super pumped about this next Film Club choice. I had no idea this movie was on Netflix, never mind on Netflix instant watch! OF COURSE I'm talking about the 1978 made-for-TV movie The Initiation of Sarah, which combines so many of my favorite things in the whole wide world: the post-Carrie world where young women had telekinetic powers, that mid 70s-early 80s trend where movie titles were frequently The Something of Someone, and a cast to end all casts! I mean, come on:

Shelley Winters

Kay Lenz

Robert Hays

MORGAN BRITTANY

Tisa Farrow

MORGAN EFFING FAIRCHILD

People, I am so all over this, I can't wait. Oh, The Initiation of Sarah. You had me at "the"!

The movie:The Initiation of Sarah (the 1978 version, not the remake!)The due date: Monday, November 29 (that's right, two Film Clubs this month because I cannot waaaaait)What you do:

Review the movie on your site. Add a link to Final Girl in there somewhere. If you've reviewed the film before, that's fine- but you must retrofit your review with a link to FG to be included in my round-up.

Email your link to me at stacieponder at gmail dot com. Put 'film club' or some such in the subject line.

19 comments:

Sweet. This is the first film club movie that I'll review that I hadn't seen before. The Netflix instant watch is getting out of control with the rare movies they keep adding, including stuff that was never even released on VHS, much less DVD.

My word verification is "spolsh", which happens to be the sound that one hears when I smack somebody in the head with a handful of jello.

There's a lot of 'good' made for TV movies from the 70s on netflix - if you go to 'the babysitter' there's a picture of Alicia Silverstone, but if you watch it the version is totally different, it's a made for TV 70s movie with the same murky color scheme as SARAH, and William Shatner as the seduced upper class dad!

Brooke Shields was the 'it' girl back then, thanks to the huge scandal/success of Blue Lagoon, Pretty Baby, and Endless Love. The girl in this Babysitter is a Shields-esque flava name of Stephanie Zimbalist. Patty Duke is the drunken mom - or is it the other way around?

I'm astonished to find that this one was aleady waiting in my Instant Queue. I don't remember adding it, but then I sometimes go on insomniac benders of queue-stocking and in the morning don't remember what I added. Stuck-up sorority sisters and telekinesis sounds like a lovely blend.

THE BABYSITTER was released in 1980, but close enough. The ultimate drunken mom Patty Duke performance is in PLEASE DON'T HIT ME MOM!, which consists solely of Patty drinking and smacking her son in the head, who is played by her real life son Sean Astin. It's a big pile of kid bashing goodness.

Wow, I can actually participate in this one. It's so funny that Netflix just put this up because I've been wanting to re-visit it and the other day I was looking at my TVM shelves -- of which I have several -- and there was a copy! In a big clamsheel no less. How did I NOT know I had this movie?!? So I put it on and it's still amazing! YAY!

Never heard of this movie, and very excited to join in! i'll be reviewing it in my blog as soon as i can get my hand on this movie, since i dont have netflix (i'm in the middle east!).it'll be in my new blog: http://bloodbathmovies.blogspot.com